By GEORGETT ROBERTS, REBECCA HARSHBARGER and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
Last Updated: 3:53 PM, July 30, 2011
Posted: 8:41 AM, July 30, 2011
A popular neighborhood street vendor, who had just proposed to his sweetheart, was stabbed to death by the ex-con daddy of the woman’s six-year-old son during a violent face-off in Brooklyn early today.
Police sources identified the jealous ex-jailbird boyfriend as Ray Kelly, who they say allegedly fatally knifed his 41-year-old love rival twice in the chest around 2:20 a.m.
The woman at the center of the tragic love triangle, Tracy Edwards, 42, escaped Kelly’s fury by barricading herself in a room after the bloody confrontation in the sixth floor Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment she shared with the victim.
The youngster was not at home at the time.
"Ray Kelly did it! He stabbed my boyfriend," a hysterical Edwards was screaming as cops stormed into the blood-stained apartment.
Kelly, who was recently released from prison, fled the scene and is still at large.
The victim was pronounced dead at Woodhull Hospital.
"Tracy was happy, he [the victim] had just proposed to her," said a long time neighbor, who also knew the baby daddy.
A resident who only gave his name as Angel, said that since the woman’s fiance had come courting over the past few months Edwards seemed happy.
"This was a good guy I started seeing him coming around a few months ago. Since he came into her life things started looking better for her. She seemed happier.
"It shows on her face. She started dressing nicer, her hair looks better. It’s a tragedy that the guy had to get killed."
Edward’ hairdresser said, "You would see them walking round holding hands. I would see him playing with the little boy."
Another neighbor, who is pregnant and lives a floor above the couple said Edwards was very generous and had given her baby clothes.
Police would not release the name of the victim, who is from South Carolina as is Edwards, until relatives were notified.
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